M. Extra Assignments

Assignments

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These assignments are designed for your students to better understand the editing and types of shots. These don't have to be used for the main production.







Assignment #1 – Different Shot – This assignment can help get students use to the camera. Can be done in one period with no editing.

• Students will create a multi shot film (5 per group). They will tell a story where everybody will be in 1 shot and have a turn using the camera once.
• Assignment: 1st shot (person #1) telling a story to someone else (person #2), 2nd shot is person #2 telling the same story to another person (person #3) but add on to the story. This will go on for each person. Shot #5 is the last shot person #5 telling the story to person #1.
• Should have a different location for each shot
• Should have one continuity error for each shot

Or

More advanced – using Camera Editing, Locations, Real Time

Assignment #2 –

• Jeff is a big guy; he is cuffed (or taped) to a briefcase. He is told that the briefcase will explode in 30 seconds. The only way to disarm it is to get it clear across the school to man with dark shades. That man knows the combination to disarm the briefcase. Jeff must run like wind, seeking the man at the end of the campus.
• Students will:
  1. Shoot using Camera Editing Techniques
  2. Film must take place in real time
  3. Each shot has to be done at a different location, but look like it takes place in the same location
  4. Film must be a minimum of 12 shots long. Two for opening, 8 action (running shots), and two closing shots.

Assignment #3
Get students to watch part of a movie or students film (DVD enclosed) – they can follow along with a hand out assignment attached.